So Mike Nash posts this to the Windows 7 blog:
"We learned a lot about using 5.1 for XP and how that helped developers with version checking for API compatibility.  We also had the lesson reinforced when we applied the version number in the Windows Vista code as Windows 6.0-- that changing basic version numbers can cause application compatibility issues. "

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/14/why-7.aspx

Sorry, but wrong. I am getting sick and tired of this bend over backwards nonsense that runs through the whole Windows platform, time and time again.

The reality is that there are a lot of shit apps out there, badly coded and dumb, stupid crap that should never have been released. Pandering to them is not the answer.

Windows 7 should have a hard compatibility barrier, and app vendors (especially the games companies, who have been living in La-La Land for too many years) should pull their fingers out and fix things properly.

Windows now has an almost insane amount of work-around code to pander to incompetence. This is not the way forward.

Grrrr.

Jon

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